Friday, October 12, 2012

Wise Women Media for 10/12/12-SPECIAL GUEST, VISIONARY ARTIST MERYL ANN BUTLER ON CREATIVITY AND JOY!

Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpEeNews Senior Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing for over 25 years. She studied art with Harold Ransom Stevenson in Sea Cliff, NY for seven years before opening her own art school. Stevenson had been a student of Norman Rockwell. 
Her art in a wide variety of media can be seen on her YouTube video, "Visionary Artist Meryl Ann Butler on Creativity and Joy" at  
A NYC native, her response to 9-11 was to pen an invitation to healing through creativity, entitled, "90-Minute Quilts: 15+ Projects You Can Stitch in an Afternoon" (Krause 2006), which is a bestseller in the craft field. The sequel, MORE 90-Minute Quilts: 20+ Quick and Easy Projects With Triangles and Squares was released in April, 2011. Her popular video, How to Stitch a Quilt in 90 Minutes with Meryl Ann Butler can be seen at  
She has been active in a number of international, arts-related projects as a citizen diplomat, and was arts advisor to Baltimore's CIUSSR (Center for Improving US-Soviet Relations), 1987-89. She made two trips to the former USSR in 1987 and 1988 to speak to artists, craftpersons and fashion designers on the topic of utilizing the arts as a tool for global wellbeing. She created the historical "First US-Soviet Children's Peace Quilt Exchange Project" in 1987-88, which was the first time a reciprocal quilt was given to the US from the former USSR. 
Her artwork is in collections across the globe. 
Meryl Ann is a founding member of The Labyrinth Society and has been building labyrinths since 1992. 
She has written over 130 articles for OpEdNews since 2004. 

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